Early Life
What is Sonny's dad's name?
Robert.
What is Sonny's job at the beginning of the chapter?
He works for the NAACP.
Who are the 4 women Sonny had children with? (1 correct guess=100 points, 2=200, etc.)
Angela, Rhonda, Lucille, Amani.
Who is Sonny's half-sister?
Josephine
What drug is Sonny addicted to?
Heroin.
What is Sonny's step-dad's name?
Eli
What is the name of the jazz club Sonny starts working at?
Jazzmine.
How old was Sonny when he had his first child? (Answer within 1 year for points)
15 years old.
Why does Sonny resent Willie?
He doesn't have a father.
How is Sonny introduced to heroin?
Amani.
Who is Sonny's childhood friend?
Mohammed/Johnny
Why did Sonny quit protesting?
Drugs made him aware of its uselessness.
Where did Sonny end up finding Amani after searching for her, and what was she doing?
At a jazz club, sleeping.
He is just as absent to his own children as his father was to him.
Where did Sonny keep his heroin and why?
He kept it in his shoe, for reassurance.
Why did Willie hate Carson going by "Sonny"?
His father used to call him that.
Why did Sonny dislike segregation?
It made him focus on inequality; he wanted to be separate from white people, it just wasn't possible (they owned everything in Harlem).
What is Amani's birth name?
Mary.
What was Willie drinking when she told Sonny about his father?
Tea.
On the first encounter with the drug, what did Sonny do with the bag of heroin he was given?
Flushed it down the toilet.
What book did Sonny read while in jail?
The Souls of Black Folk
What phrase did Sonny always remember that a little boy said to him while he was working?
"You can't do a single thing, can you?"
Why did Sonny feel an immediate attraction to Amani?
"He had felt something in himself open up when she started singing that night" (p.254)
Why does Sonny end up going to Sunday dinner at the end of the chapter?
He and Amani need money.
Where does Sonny go to "score"?
116th street.